I previously posted about starting a 7 day game jam mini challenge. One 10 minute game per day along with other mini goals.
Overall I’m glad to have done it because I feel like it gets you over the idea of being blocked by what to make.
It also taught me that board games are pretty fun to think about so I may do more of that.
I also did a 3hr game jam one of the days.
Overall I want to try slightly longer jams (2-3 days). Maybe mix in a few 3hr-24hr jams in between too.
I want to see if expanding to something a bit longer will result in much higher quality prototypes.
10 minutes is obviously too short. 3hrs is on the edge and while many games can be prototyped in that time, I find adding juice and a little polish is quite hard in that time frame.
The other valuable parts of the challenge where to try to play more indie games/demos. That, I will def continue to do.
And finally also learning more about game design via books/videos was valuable and I want to continue that too.
I didn’t get to do many of the other mini-parts of the challenge but I want to slowly add more while not burning out.
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